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- Portrait Project
Ipsita Dasgupta
parents to seek better healthcare and education for their children or a venture philanthropy fund that supports hospitals, schools, and microfinance institutions that provide for the needs of the poor. View Details
- Portrait Project
Gordon C. Liao
i want to create wealth through poetry, passion and performance fulfill decades of unfilled entrepreneurial dreams of inner city tenants build success for descendants of slaves, laborers, refugee immigrants and overlooked underemployed peoples like my View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
with one big exception - it's a clean, well-lighted place. "Most parents don't want to go into a dirty old arcade," Simon noted. "I want to create an inviting atmosphere for the whole family." Prior to getting back into the family line of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of two dying View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
more time with stay-at-home parents or grandparents. I missed out on a lot of those lessons on my way to adulthood, and when I started doing research for the book, I discovered a world of people who felt the same way. How did you decide... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cyril Abel Vergis
As a first-generation, first-born American, I grew up believing that my motivation was derived from the self-imposed pressure to take advantage of the opportunities my parents did not have. I strove to make the right choices, to take... View Details
- Portrait Project
Craig Maughan
opportunities they need to succeed in life? On reflection, probably not. As much as my parents gave me, they fell short (so did their parents). But along the way, others helped me fill in the gaps. That’s why I will spend my life giving... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sohil Parekh
parents met on a train in India in 1972. I can see them in my mind – my mother, wide-eyed, bell-bottomed, beautiful; my father, bespectacled, bookish, earnest. They married the following year; I arrived some five years later. My road to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Fennerty
not as “mine and theirs,” but “ours.” Of all the things I hope to achieve in this life, I hope for this: that I give my children the opportunities I had growing up to experience the richness of the world beyond their immediate boundaries. That I teach them to embrace... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Originally from Bulgaria, I was one of the last children born under Communism. With the 50-year regime collapsing a month after I was born, my parents sought out the American dream for our family by immigrating to the U.S. to finish their... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
their names, and there were kids who actually couldn’t. One child, who was almost four, kept saying his name was Corky, which it wasn’t. These are children who have been paid so little attention that they don’t even know their names.” Equally empowering are CHECC’s... View Details
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- Portrait Project
Tara Hagan
day. As the second-oldest child adopted into a multiracial family of nine in small-town Oklahoma, I almost didn’t go to college. We couldn’t afford it. Besides, I didn’t know anyone who had finished college. My parents pushed me to... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Susan Hamilton
professional and to be the kind of mother I want to be. I miss work to take my children to the doctor. I take client calls while at the playground. I want to send a message - parenting v. professionalism is not a zero-sum game. View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Naunheim
My parents gave me scars. The pale pink one on my left knee was from Dad, a surgeon, who meticulously sutured a puncture wound made when I fell on a rusty nail. The jagged arc on my forearm was from Mom, an emergency physician, who... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alok Sanghvi
in. I want to plot my course with someone I love. I am not sure that I've found her yet, but I think I'm getting close. I want to ask my parents for directions. The best map of my life is the one they continue to draw for me in dinner... View Details
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Nelya Nikonova
about my future professional path, with hopes of creating a family and finally figuring out where home is. I dream of having my dear parents nearby and attaining at least some of their strength, generosity, and wisdom. As I try to do... View Details
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Kelly Cheng
life. Step back and you'll see a life's map leading to a career as an MD. My parents would be proud! Why business school? Well, life's map has today directed me to a land where MDs are managing directors rather than medical doctors.... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
offered for free. In response to the anticipated surge, Bank of America has pledged $1 million to keep the site up and running. Khan is also running webinars for parents and teachers with guidance about how to incorporate the site’s... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane. “I’m honored to serve parents like that.” (Published February 2016) View Details